Change Can Be Beautiful. Just Ask Will Ferrell and Harper Steele.

变化可以是美丽的。问问威尔·法瑞尔和哈珀·斯蒂尔就知道了。

The Interview

社会与文化

2024-09-07

46 分钟
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The superstar comedian and his best friend and collaborator discuss the journey that deepened their friendship.
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  • For me,

  • it was always about managing the fear and finding ways to use it until I could be motivated by the exact opposite of that.

  • And I never had to worry about the fear again because it didn't define me.

  • That's eight time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi on Everything and nothing to do with tennis.

  • Read more@nytimes.com UBS Agassi that's nytimes.com UBS A G A S S.

  • From the New York Times, this is the interview.

  • I'm David Marchese.

  • How well do we know our friends, our neighbors, ourselves?

  • In the new documentary Will and Harper,

  • Will Ferrell and his best friend and frequent collaborator Harper Steele take a cross country road trip together to try to answer those questions.

  • Hitting the highway on a quest for meaning is a classic American story,

  • but this time there's a fresh angle.

  • Harper is a trans woman who came out to her friends, including Will, two years ago.

  • That was after years as a comedy writer, many of them at Saturday Night.

  • Live where they both worked and where.

  • Harper eventually became a head writer.

  • They both have mixed feelings about their work at snl, as they explained to me.

  • They also had some ups and downs on their road trip,

  • which was ultimately a chance for them to talk through what Harper's transition means for their friendship and for them both to get a clearer sense of how their fellow Americans really feel about transgender identity.

  • The film's soul searching often comes wrapped in laughs,